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Washington -- Retired U.S. Admiral JONATHAN HOWE, the United Nations' special representative in Somalia, has been quietly pulled out of that country by U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Howe headed last year's hapless effort to catch Somali strongman Mohammed Farrah Aidid, and even offered a $25,000 reward for...
They didn't have to; they well knew. Air strikes against the Serbs could severely strain relations between the NATO powers and Russia, many of whose citizens empathize with the Serbs as fellow Slavs and Orthodox Christians. If the ultimatum had to be voted on in the U.N. Security Council...
Never have so many aid workers paid such a high price for their commitment. Eleven U.N. relief staff members have died in Bosnia. Kidnappings, shootings and death threats are part of the job description in Somalia, where six aid workers have been slain. Although the Clinton Administration denies it, there...
The U.N. forces assigned to safeguard the convoys complain bitterly over the gap between their task of assuring free passage through a raging factional war zone and the means provided to achieve it. With only 13,000 troops on the ground and no air cover, "our job is becoming impossible...
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the U.N. Security Council that without a substantial new ground presence there would be little point to using air strikes against Bosnian Serbs, as threatened by NATO leaders at their summit meeting in Brussels earlier this month. U.N. officials advised Boutros- Ghali that air...